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4 Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Innovation culture is one of those terms that’s hard to define – poll 10 people on the street and we’d likely get 10 different interpretations. Yet we tend to know it when we see it. I often find myself working with companies that, in the past, have tried a generic “open suggestion box” approach to innovation: Create an ideas portal, let people post ideas spontaneously and see if anything interesting comes up.

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Can AI Help Reframe Business Problems?

Stephen Shapiro

Like millions of others, I have been playing around with ChatGPT. In an earlier post , I asked it some generic questions and got some generic responses. So I decided to put it to the test and see how it would do with my Invisible Solutions content. Can the AI system reframe problems better than the 25 lenses? To put it to the test, I decided to ask it to solve the baggage claim problem.

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Creating Change That Lasts

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When Lou Gerstner took over at IBM in 1993, the century-old tech giant was in dire straits. Overtaken by nimbler upstarts, like Microsoft in software, Compaq in hardware and Intel in microprocessors, it was hemorrhaging money. Many believed that it needed to be broken up into smaller, more focused units […].

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Why creativity is the future of your teams

Idea to Value

The world is changing faster than ever. Established companies are being overtaken by more innovative upstarts, entire industries which previously dominated the economy are being disrupted. And looking at the future of work, artificial intelligence has already begun replacing low-skilled jobs. So what is the single most important skill for your teams in order to stay productive, motivated and passionate at work?

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else. I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups. I’ve built new teams. And I’ve helped fix dysfunctional ones.

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How to Keep Innovation Alive When Sales Are Down

IdeaScale

Whether it’s a bad quarter, your market or demographic is rapidly shrinking, or we are in the midst of a recession—you may be tempted to halt your innovation program. However, innovation is precisely what you need when your sales decline. This isn’t to suggest that you won’t need to pivot or downsize, but a strategic [.].

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What Are the Most Popular Methods for Managing Continuous Improvement?

Kainexus

Organizations that embrace the continuous improvement approach to business have many great tools and techniques from which to choose. Some organizations use them as part of a structured methodology like Lean, Six Sigma, or Toyota Kata. Others leverage them on their own. Every organization has unique needs and will need to adjust each method for their own environment, but the most popular techniques are flexible enough to be used by organizations of every size and in every industry.

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Overcoming Resistance to Change

Rmukesh Gupta

We live in a world with accelerating pace of change. For all us leaders, this accelerating change comes with the necessity to respond to these changes in a coherent, strategic and urgent ways. This translates into starting and leading change initiatives within our teams. So much so that there is change fatigue that has started to set in. This fatigue often leads to resistance to change.

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Increasing Your Commitment and Capacity to Lead with Empathy: 3 Best Practices

CMOE

In a growing number of organizations, there is an uptick in the level of employee stress due to work-life imbalance, remote work, and blurred lines between people’s personal and professional lives. The pandemic certainly didn’t help matters either; a recent global study by Qualtrics revealed that 67% of people are experiencing increases in stress, while 57% have increased anxiety and 54% are emotionally exhausted.

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5 education innovation trends worth watching in 2023

Christensen Institute

2022 marked a confusing year in the world of education innovation. As a friend and school leader said to me a few months ago, “Innovation is dead, right?”. She was half joking while perfectly summing up something in the air last year in schools: a pandemic hangover mixed with ongoing, day-to-day challenges of running complex systems. Together, these made many “new” approaches to education feel too overwhelming to even entertain.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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From School Dropout to CEO: Advice for Creative Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The path to entrepreneurship success is often a rocky one, yet incredibly fulfilling all the same. Here are three lessons I've learned on my journey.

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How to Motivate a Top Performer — When You Can’t Promote Them

Harvard Business Review

Talented employees may feel demoralized by slow career advancement. These interim strategies can help ensure their underlying needs are met.

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Engaging Consciousness in the Emotional Work of Organizational Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Organizational transformation is a uniquely human endeavor. Navigating the journey to change starts with understanding the employee experience and creating space for emotional safety in the workplace. According to organizational behavior expert Sigal Barsade, emotions are the key to encouraging higher performance and achievement.

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Health Care 2023: Three innovation trends worth watching

Christensen Institute

It’s that time of year again. Many thought leaders put out their predictions of what will come to pass in the year ahead for health care. But what would theory predict? In this piece, I’ll highlight theory-based predictions around what 2023 will bring. Specifically, it will focus on what the theory of Jobs to Be Done may forecast. I’ve written extensively about Jobs Theory in the past, but a quick recap can be summarized as follows: A “job” is the progress someone seeks in a given situation or c

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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ROI: Financial Benefits of Business Process Improvement

Kainexus

Organizations that successfully instill a culture of continuous improvement constantly outperform the competition, regardless of size or industry. From healthcare to manufacturing and construction, and beyond, the effort and energy put into business process improvement is directly related to measurable results and financial benefits.

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U.S. Soccer’s Gregg Berhalter on Rebuilding Trust in the Wake of Controversy

Harvard Business Review

Berhalter says he’s saddened that his public life has affected his family as he addresses an accusation of violence from 30 years ago.

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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022: Robyn Bolton Robyn M. Bolton works with leaders of mid and large sized companies to use innovation to repeatably and […].

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Strategies for Successfully Establishing Sales in a New Market

Tullio Siragusa

Strategies for Successfully Establishing Sales in a New Market Entering a new market can be a daunting task for any sales leader. It requires a strategic approach and a deep understanding of the target market to be successful. In this blog post, we’ll walk through key steps that a sales leader should take to establish sales in a new market, including conducting market research, designing a sales plan, building the right sales team, and establishing key partnerships.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Patent Trolls Are Targeting Small Business Innovators — and You Could Be Next.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Patent trolls are wielding the ITC's power against American entrepreneurs, hurting their ability to innovate.

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Where Is Tech Going in 2023?

Harvard Business Review

Six trends that will define the next year, according to McKinsey experts.

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Stop Recycling Old Ideas and Start Solving New Problems

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Creating new ideas is easy. Sit down, quiet your mind, and create a list of five new ideas. There. You’ve done it. Five new ideas. It didn’t take you a long time to create them. But ideas are cheap. Converting ideas into sellable products and selling them is difficult and […].

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Learnings from Participating in an Intrapreneurship Program

Rmukesh Gupta

This blog is co-authored by Makesh Gupta and Rena Yu Ning Wang, and it is about our journey participating in the SAP.iO journey, with the idea of building a SAP Live Shopping Platform. This was originally posted on the SAP Community blog and has been republished here with permission. Context: It was a late Friday evening and I was bored and so I did what I always do when most of us feel bored – pick up the phone and started scrolling through my social media feed – Facebook, instagram and then my

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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BMW's New i Vision Dee Concept Car Can Change Colors Without Going to the Body Shop

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The "emotionally intelligent" vehicle features 32 color displays and nine "facial expressions.".

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Don’t Underestimate Your Influence at Work

Harvard Business Review

How to recognize the influence you already have — and wield it more effectively.

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23 Ways in 2023 to Create Amazing Experiences

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Happy New Year! I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, which are often broken. Instead, I like setting and resetting my goals for the year, and in my world, those goals focus on delivering an amazing customer service experience. So, I’ve created a list of simple ways to deliver the […].

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How to Drive Digital Transformation Using ITONICS

ITONICS

In today's fast-paced business landscape, digital transformation has become a critical factor for companies looking to stay ahead of the game. But where do you start? In this article, we show how to usher digital transformation with the ITONICS Innovation OS, using the example of Siemens Energy.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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KICKSTART CHANGE AND INNOVATE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

ImagineNation

In our last blog , we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate, to take advantage of living in a globalised world, interconnected through technologies and values and within an interrelated structure of reality. We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable,

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Your Company’s Data Is for Sale on the Dark Web. Should You Buy It Back?

Harvard Business Review

Paying for stolen data — even when it’s your own — comes with substantial legal and reputational risks.

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Top 100 Innovation and Transformation Articles of 2022

Innovation Excellence

2021 marked the re-birth of my original Blogging Innovation blog as a new blog called Human-Centered Change and Innovation. Many of you may know that Blogging Innovation grew into the world’s most popular global innovation community before being re-branded as InnovationExcellence.com and being ultimately sold to DisruptorLeague.com. Thanks to an outpouring of support I’ve ignited […].

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2022’s Hottest Scouting Topics

Yet2

The yet2 team is thankful for another great year supporting our clients across technology scouting and Open Innovation advising. Among the highlights are a record number of deals completed for our clients, the launch of CSL’s Open Innovation portal , new services including Open Innovation training, and several new team members across North America and Europe.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib